Lilleonah Chivenge
Lilleonah Chivenge holds a master of laws degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is a community legal educator.
We don’t need new names
/ 13 September 2020

We don’t need new names

COMMENT A deeply embedded patriarchal practice assumes that a married woman must change her surname to that of her spouse. This was standard practice at the department of home affairs. Officials would automatically change the surname of the newlywed wife to that of her husband, sometimes even in violation of the wife’s express intention to […]